List of members of the seventeenth Knesset

The following is a list of the members of the seventeenth Knesset, elected on 28 March 2006 and inaugurated 4 May 2006, and their replacements.

Knesset members

Name	Party	Position
Ehud Olmert	Kadima	Prime Minister
Tzipi Livni	Kadima	Acting Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs
Meir Sheetrit	Kadima	Minister of the Interior
Avi Dichter	Kadima	Minister of Internal Security
Marina Solodkin	Kadima
Haim Ramon	Kadima	Vice Prime Minister, Minister in the Prime Minister's Office
Shaul Mofaz	Kadima	Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Transportation
Tzachi Hanegbi	Kadima	Chairman, Security and Foreign Affairs Committee
Avraham Hirschson	Kadima
Gideon Ezra	Kadima	Minister of Environmental Affairs
Roni Bar-On	Kadima	Minister of Finance
Dalia Itzik	Kadima	Speaker of the Knesset
Ze'ev Boim	Kadima	Minister of Housing and Construction
Yaakov Edri	Kadima	Minister of Negev and Galilee Development
Ze'ev Elkin	Kadima
Majalli Wahabi	Kadima	Deputy Speaker of the Kenesset
Ruhama Avraham	Kadima	Minister without Portfolio responsible for Knesset liaison, Minister of Tourism
Menachem Ben-Sasson	Kadima	Chairman, Committee on Law and Constitution
Eli Aflalo	Kadima	Minister of Immigrant Absorption
David Tal	Kadima	Chairman, House Committee
Ronit Tirosh	Kadima
Otniel Schneller	Kadima	Deputy Speaker of Knesset
Michael Nudelman	Kadima	Chairman, Committee on Immigration, Absorption and the Diaspora
Amira Dotan	Kadima
Yoel Hasson	Kadima
Shai Hermesh	Kadima
Isaac Ben-Israel	Kadima
Yohanan Plesner	Kadima
Shlomo Molla	Kadima
Amir Peretz	Labor-Meimad
Isaac Herzog	Labor-Meimad	Minister of Welfare
Ophir Pines-Paz	Labor-Meimad	Chairman, Committee on Interior Affairs and the Environment
Avishay Braverman	Labor-Meimad	Chairman, Finance Committee
Yuli Tamir	Labor-Meimad	Minister of Education
Ami Ayalon	Labor-Meimad	Minister without Portfolio
Eitan Cabel	Labor-Meimad
Binyamin Ben-Eliezer	Labor-Meimad	Minister of National Infrastructure
Shelly Yachimovich	Labor-Meimad
Michael Melchior	Labor-Meimad	Chairman, Committee on Education, Culture and Sports
Matan Vilnai	Labor-Meimad	Deputy Minister of Defense
Colette Avital	Labor-Meimad	Deputy Speaker of Knesset
Nadia Hilou	Labor-Meimad	Chairwoman, Committee on the Rights of the Child
Shalom Simhon	Labor-Meimad	Minister of Agriculture
Orit Noked	Labor-Meimad
Yoram Marciano	Labor-Meimad
Raleb Majadele	Labor-Meimad	Minister of Science, Culture and Sports
Shakhiv Shana'an	Labor-Meimad
Leon Litinetsky	Labor-Meimad
Eli Yishai	Shas	Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry, Commerce and Employment
Yitzhak Cohen	Shas	Minister without Portfolio
Amnon Cohen	Shas	Deputy Speaker of Knesset
Meshulam Nahari	Shas	Minister without Portfolio
Ariel Atias	Shas	Minister of Communications
David Azulai	Shas
Yitzhak Vaknin	Shas
Nissim Ze'ev	Shas
Ya'akov Margi	Shas
Emil Amsalem	Shas
Avraham Michaeli	Shas
Mazor Bahaina	Shas
Rafi Eitan	Gil^[a]	Minister of Retiree Affairs
Yaakov Ben-Yezri	Gil	Minister of Health
Yitzhak Galanti	Gil	Chairman, Committee on Labor, Welfare and Health
Yitzhak Ziv	Gil	Deputy Speaker of Knesset
Moshe Sharoni	Gil
Sara Marom	Gil
Elhanan Glazer	Gil	Left party to establish The Right Way
Benjamin Netanyahu	Likud	Chairman of the Opposition
Silvan Shalom	Likud
Moshe Kahlon	Likud
Gilad Erdan	Likud
Gideon Sa'ar	Likud
Michael Eitan	Likud	Chairman, State Control Committee
Reuven Rivlin	Likud
Yuval Steinitz	Likud
Limor Livnat	Likud
Yisrael Katz	Likud
Haim Katz	Likud
Yuli-Yoel Edelstein	Likud	Deputy Speaker of Knesset
Avigdor Liberman	Yisrael Beiteinu
Israel Hasson	Yisrael Beiteinu	Chairman, Economy Committee
Yosef Shagal	Yisrael Beiteinu
Esterina Tartman	Yisrael Beiteinu
Stas Misezhnikov	Yisrael Beiteinu
Sofa Landver	Yisrael Beiteinu	Chairwoman, Public Petitions Committee
Yitzhak Aharonovich	Yisrael Beiteinu
Robert Ilatov	Yisrael Beiteinu
Alex Miller	Yisrael Beiteinu
Lia Shemtov	Yisrael Beiteinu	Chairwoman, Committee on Advancing the Status of Women
David Rotem	Yisrael Beiteinu	Deputy Speaker of Knesset
Binyamin Elon	National Union-NRP
Zevulun Orlev	National Union-NRP	Chairman, Committee on Science and Technology
Zvi Hendel	National Union-NRP
Effi Eitam	National Union-NRP
Nissan Slomiansky	National Union-NRP
Yitzhak Levi	National Union-NRP	Deputy Speaker of Knesset
Eliyahu Gabai	National Union-NRP
Aryeh Eldad	National Union-NRP
Uri Ariel	National Union-NRP
Yaakov Litzman	United Torah Judaism
Meir Porush	United Torah Judaism
Moshe Gafni	United Torah Judaism
Shmuel Halpert	United Torah Judaism
Uri Maklev	United Torah Judaism
Yehoshua Menachem Pollack	United Torah Judaism
Haim Oron	Meretz-Yachad	Chairman, Ethics Committee
Ran Cohen	Meretz-Yachad
Zehava Gal-On	Meretz-Yachad
Avshalom Vilan	Meretz-Yachad
Tzvia Greenfield	Meretz-Yachad
Ibrahim Sarsur	United Arab List
Ahmad Tibi	United Arab List
Taleb el-Sana	United Arab List
Abbas Zakour^[b]	United Arab List
Mohammad Barakeh	Hadash	Deputy Speaker of Knesset
Hana Sweid	Hadash
Dov Khenin	Hadash
Jamal Zahalka	Balad
Wasil Taha	Balad
Said Nafa	Balad

Replacements

Name	Party	Replaced by	Remarks
Uriel Reichman	Kadima	Shai Hermesh	Resigned on 20 April 2006 after the role of Minister of Education, promised to him by Ariel Sharon, was given to Labor.
Natan Sharansky	Likud	Haim Katz	Sharansky retired from politics and left the Knesset on 20 November 2006.
Yuri Stern	Yisrael Beiteinu	David Rotem	Stern died of cancer on 16 January 2007.
Dan Naveh	Likud	Yuli-Yoel Edelstein	Naveh resigned to go into business on 27 February 2007.
Azmi Bishara	Balad	Said Nafa	Bishara resigned from the Knesset on 22 April 2007 due to a police investigation into his activities during the 2006 Lebanon War.
Shimon Peres	Kadima	Isaac Ben-Israel	Peres resigned from the Knesset following his election as president on 13 June 2007.
Shlomo Breznitz	Kadima	Yohanan Plesner	Breznitz retired from politics and left the Knesset on 8 October 2007.
Avigdor Yitzhaki	Kadima	Shlomo Molla	Yitzhaki resigned from the Knesset on 7 February 2008 due to "serious doubts over Ehud Olmert's ability to lead the government in the wake of the Winograd Report".^[1]
Shlomo Benizri	Shas	Mazor Bahaina	Benizri resigned from the Knesset on 27 April 2008 after being convicted of bribery.
Efraim Sneh	Labor	Shakhiv Shana'an	Sneh resigned from the Knesset on 28 May 2008 as he left Labor to found his own party.
Danny Yatom	Labor	Leon Litinetsky	Yatom resigned from the Knesset on 30 June 2008 due to a lack of confidence in the government.
Ya'akov Cohen	United Torah Judaism	Uri Maklev	Cohen resigned from the Knesset due to a rotation agreement.
Yossi Beilin	Meretz-Yachad	Tzvia Greenfield	Beilin retired from politics and left the Knesset on 4 November 2008.
Avraham Ravitz	United Torah Judaism	Yehoshua Menachem Pollack	Ravitz died on 26 January 2009.

Notes

^ The Gil parliamentary group split in April 2008, with MKs Sharoni, Marom and Glazer forming the Justice for the Elderly faction. In October 2008, Sharoni and Marom reunited with Gil, leaving Glazer to form The Right Way parliamentary group.
^ Labor successfully filed a lawsuit, alleging electoral fraud in several Arab settlements and requesting an additional seat at the expense of the United Arab List. Zakour was replaced by Labor's Shakib Shanan.

References

^ Knesset to swear in 2nd Ethiopian MK Jerusalem Post, 8 February 2008

External links

All past and present members Knesset website (in English)

[1] The Gil parliamentary group split in April 2008, with MKs Sharoni, Marom and Glazer forming the Justice for the Elderly faction. In October 2008, Sharoni and Marom reunited with Gil, leaving Glazer to form The Right Way parliamentary group.

[2] Labor successfully filed a lawsuit, alleging electoral fraud in several Arab settlements and requesting an additional seat at the expense of the United Arab List. Zakour was replaced by Labor's Shakib Shanan.

[3] Knesset to swear in 2nd Ethiopian MK Jerusalem Post, 8 February 2008

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